American History Education Policy Tradition 
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Our goals were not far-fetched or new.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 9, 2017
Though there are no hard numbers, educators acknowledge the total is miniscule.). Yet multiage advocates say the traditional approach of dividing students into single grades based on an arbitrary birthdate range is illogical.
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The Hechinger Report
MAY 2, 2024
Marissa Bellenger, one of Cassanello’s graduate students, was warned by a visiting professor teaching a lecture course on American history for which she is a teaching assistant. “He “If I were a lecturer, and I see what’s going on in Tallahassee,” he said, “I would say, ‘Maybe I don’t teach that concept.’”
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 12, 2023
The anti-CRT efforts to restrict how race is taught have clashed with initiatives in several states, including South Dakota, Oklahoma and New Mexico, to teach Native American history — which has often been left out of instruction — more accurately and fully. And so they just don’t, so there is no Native history being taught.”
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 28, 2022
The first state history textbooks defended segregation. And at the end of the 20th century, groups like the Eagle Forum left a growing imprint on education policy in the state. “It It is a continuation or even a recreation of the 90s,” said Wayne Flynt, a retired Alabama history professor.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 25, 2016
At the state level, funds that were targeted for local education agencies are diverted to vouchers for individual children, a sharp loss in the funding that states historically have provided to school districts. Money is siphoned from traditional public schools and towards a diverse array of unregulated for-profit and private providers.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 12, 2024
Ariel Gilreath School choice Expanding school choice through private-school vouchers has been a key part of Trump’s education policy, but he had little success in getting his most ambitious efforts passed by Congress. One early accomplishment came via the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
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